HAA 0820 World Film History

(offered every other year)

World Film History is an introductory course in film studies which introduces basic techniques of film study and acquaints the student with some of the major works and movements in the international cinema from 1985 to the present. Among the important historical and aesthetic developments to be considered are: turn-of-the-century "primitive" films; the evolution of film narrative and visual style in the 'teens; the rise of the European avant-gardes of the 1920s (including Soviet revolutionary cinema, the French Impressionist film and the German Expressionist cinema); the genres of documentary and experimental film; the classical Hollywood film of the 1930s-40s; post-war Italian neorealism, the French new wave, and other international cinemas. The specific films selected for presentation in this class are from the established masterworks of the cinema.